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![UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Tom Yankeelov holds his Friar award alongside his students.](/images/Yankeelov_Friar_Teaching_Award_UT_Austin.jpg)
Tom Yankeelov, professor of biomedical engineering and core faculty member at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, received the 2024 Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship.
![UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Evan Wang holds his ASEE Award.](/images/Evan_Wang_UT_Austin_ASEE_Teaching_Award.jpg)
Assistant Professor Huiliang (Evan) Wang received the Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award at the 2024 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference.
![A photograph of UT Austin Professor Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez overlayed atop a photograph of the Department of Biomedical Engineering building.](/images/BME_Exterior_Hernandez.jpg)
Elizabeth Cosgriff-Hernandez, professor in The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Biomedical Engineering, is one of the newest fellows of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative International Society (TERMIS).
![UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Michael Sacks speaks at the 2024 CMBE Conference.](/images/Sacks_CMBE_Lecture.jpg)
Michael Sacks, professor in The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, gave the plenary lecture at the 2024 International Conference on Computational & Mathematical Biomedical Engineering (CMBE).
![A computational model of the Left Val](/images/LV_MV_Model.png)
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin's Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences shed new light on heart health by focusing on the complexities of the mitral valve and heart valve function as well as high speed computational models of heart function.
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Six students in the UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering are among dozens of others pedaling to Anchorage on a mission to raise awareness and money for the fight against cancer.
![UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering graduate student works in a lab.](/images/Biomedical_Engineering_Student_In_Lab.jpg)
The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering's graduate program ranked No. 17 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024-2025 graduate engineering program rankings, released on Tuesday.
![Professor Janet Zoldan in a lab coat atop an image of the UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering and the UT Austin Tower.](/images/BME_Exterior_Zoldan.jpg)
UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering professor Janet Zoldan was recently appointed as the editor in chief of the new npj Biomedical Innovations journal—part of the Nature portfolio. The journal is the most recent addition to the npj journal series, which are community-focused, open-access journals across the physical, life, environmental and clinical sciences within Nature.
![Nicholas Peppas holds his award at the Chinese Association for Biomaterials while standing in front of a large screen displaying 2024 Global Biomaterials Leadership Award.](/images/Peppas_Award.jpg)
The Chinese Association for Biomaterials recognized professor Nicholas Peppas of the University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering with the 2024 Global Biomaterials Leadership Award.
![The cover of the UT Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering Pulse magazine against a grey background.](/images/2024_BME_Pulse-Mockup_WEB.jpg)
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